When October rolls around, many people turn to scary movies for thrills and chills. While vampires, ghosts, and monsters are often the stars, some of the most unsettling films draw from real-life ...

In 1996, Paramount Pictures released The Ghost and the Darkness, a historical horror-adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins, starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The story is based on the true ...

These based on a true story movies actually hew fairly closely to the true story, taking the minimum number of creative liberties. Though most of these films are several years old, some have some very ...

These based on a true story movies are pretty accurate — aside from their fictionalized main characters. Does knowing that lead characters — and in some cases, the hero of the movie — were Hollywood ...

A man balances on a wire stretched between the Twin Towers. A pilot safely lands an airliner on a river with 155 people still on board. A CIA team escapes Tehran by pretending to shoot a sci-fi film.

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

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